A stone is a unit of mass within the Imperial units system used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and formerly in a number of Commonwealth countries. It is equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois, i.e. 6.35029318 kilograms.
/nutch_noindex. Genitourinary is a word that refers to the urinary and genital organs. Urology is the branch of medicine concerned with the urinary tract in both genders and the genital tract of the reproductive system in males. Nephrology is the branch of medicine concerned with the kidney.
Genitourinary injuries occur in 10â20% of major trauma patients. Most of these injuries, with the exception of renal hilar disruption or shattered kidney, are not immediately life threatening. Because they are often accompanied by potentially life-threatening injuries to other organ systems, it is easy for the emergency physician to overlook and therefore miss signs or symptoms of urologic injury.